Affection is an overpowering craving to be compellingly sought.

A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.

It looked as if a night of dark intent was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage.

Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

The land was ours before we were the land's. She was our land more than a hundred years Before we were her people.

I am one who has been acquainted with the night